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Lloyd Davis

@lloyddavis.bsky.social

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You may know me from such hashtags as #tuttle #wewillgather #c4cc #PLATE and #blackelephant Sings with a non-hashtagged ukulele. Blog (like this only bigger chunks) at https://perfectpath.co.uk

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Lloyd Davis @lloyddavis.bsky.social · 1h

It's the beer bottles at the window that push me over the edge. It's a prodigal son moment and a couple of bottles of beer and some sandwiches is the nearest thing to a fatted calf that we had at that time.

Lloyd Davis @lloyddavis.bsky.social · 5d

Flu jab jabbed.

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Undermanager @undermanager.bsky.social · 18d

I am once again running a pointlessly long distance.

So now I have to ask you for money.

www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

Non-fun run

I've slightly been in denial about this. Various things have prevented training. But, I'm going to do the Royal Parks Half Marathon in a few weeks. And that now means that I'm supposed to ask you to ...

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Alex Lockwood @alexlockwood.bsky.social · 23d

In the light of all that's happening across our nations and neighbourhoods, we @absurdintelligence.bsky.social hope we achieved our ambition for our Fate of Britain Convention last week: that how it felt in the room is how we can make it feel in the country www.absurdintelligence.com/taking-fate-...

Taking fate into our own hands

Our Convention on the Fate of Britain was a party for the people who keep the country running.

www.absurdintelligence.com

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Lloyd Davis @lloyddavis.bsky.social · 23d

Hurt cats hurt people.

Lloyd Davis @lloyddavis.bsky.social · 26d

Dramatic rise in searches for “how to strip someone of their peerage”

Lloyd Davis @lloyddavis.bsky.social · 27d

Heh! We haven’t met yet, we were in a (big) room together yesterday and he was being big and important on stage while I was doing my quiet and unassuming thing around the place :)

Lloyd Davis @lloyddavis.bsky.social · 28d

Doh! This message was originally for @tim-evans.bsky.social but I’m a bit shit at social media… and it probably deserves a wider audience anyway :)

Lloyd Davis @lloyddavis.bsky.social · 28d

I’ve just been given this badge. I hope that sharing the sentiment doesn’t make you feel even worse!

A white hand is holding a badge which reads “I’m a bit shit sometimes” from camerados.org

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Lloyd Davis @lloyddavis.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Lloyd Davis @lloyddavis.bsky.social · Aug 27

On a train. A man in a suit farted, deliberately and very loudly just to make the little boy sitting next to him laugh. The boy didn’t laugh and everyone in the carriage thought that I was the culprit and gave me hard stares. #lastnightsdream

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · Aug 26

The World at One: “we wouldn't normally lead our news with the policy of a party with only 4 MPs, but they have been topping the polls”
Could that have anything to do with the BBC making Farage a major TV and Radio star for the last 10 years perhaps?

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Lloyd Davis @lloyddavis.bsky.social · Aug 26

Dear BBC news, let me stop you there. Just to say, “Don’t Feed The Troll”

Screenshot of a news headline clipped to only include the words “Nigel Farage says”

Lloyd Davis @lloyddavis.bsky.social · Aug 21

“It works—it really does”

Keep on trudging!

Lloyd Davis @lloyddavis.bsky.social · Aug 19

Eric Pickles had no part in my downfall, I managed that all by myself :)

Lloyd Davis @lloyddavis.bsky.social · Aug 19

Hurtling at 500 metres per hour

www.svtplay.se/video/KnDgQ9...

Den stora kyrkflytten – Första dagen

I direktsändning följer vi den världsunika flytten av Kiruna kyrka, från gamla stadskärnan till dess nya plats, fem kilometer bort. Den stora kyrkflytten tar två dagar och är en del av den omfattande ...

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Lloyd Davis @lloyddavis.bsky.social · Aug 14

I'm all for checking, I just think that (sadly/not sadly) it will continue to need messy human interaction, so I'm drawn to more participatory and deliberative processes for people to get stuck into.

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Lloyd Davis @lloyddavis.bsky.social · Aug 14

So I think the issue is in what you're saying about them being analysable. The relationship betwen inputs and outputs seems to be just as complex (and unpredictable/unreliable) as it is in (groups of) humans.

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Lloyd Davis @lloyddavis.bsky.social · Aug 14

Thank you. This artist is quite sure that you're right about the unfeasibility :) I was trying to point to exactly this problem of personal judgements - because it's hard (especially with these chatbot LLMs) to treat the outputs as anything other than yet another biased assessment.

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Lloyd Davis @lloyddavis.bsky.social · Aug 14

And.

Replace “AI” here with “Artists”.

Why don’t we trust artists to “deduce and impute” motives? And why then might we think that AI is any more trustworthy?